Works Minister Jack Warner has made good on his promise for a paved road to the home of national sporting icon Lynette "Granny" Luces.Warner visited Luces, 87, in February after she called on him to pave the track which led to her house at Lewis Trace, Quarry Road, San Juan.In a ceremony yesterday, held outside her home, Warner said the ministry spent $1 million to pave the track, built drains and constructed retention walls.Warner said the project began at the end of June and was completed in record time.He shared his disappointment in previous Governments for ignoring Luces' requests for a paved road after all she had done for sports in T&T.Warner said: "An icon like Granny should not have had to suffer."
Luces said the paving of the road came as a blessing.She said it represented Government's recognition of the contributions she had made to sport.Expressing her enthusiasm for the road, she said: "It feels so nice, I can walk in shoes, no more mud and no more bush."Luces moved to the top of Lewis Trace on January 15, 1960.She raised 11 children at the house, which she and her husband built brick-by-brick by themselves.Luces said she credited her fitness to the long steep walk up to her house.MP for St Ann's East, Joanne Thomas, thanked Warner for coming to the aid of Luces and the other residents of upper Lewis Trace.Thomas said she would talk to the local community group to change the name of Lewis Trace to "Granny" Luces Road, in tribute to a national hero.